Descended fromThomas Ewing Sr(1695-1747/48) and his wife, Mary Maskell (1701-1784) of Greenwich, New Jersey, are numerous men
(too many to list here) who greatly contributed to the development of America. They
were pioneers, forging trails and roads into the Northwest Territory. They were
soldiers, fighting in the American Revolution and in the Civil War. Many became
lawyers and politicians, helping design the laws of a new nation. The Ewing men came
from a long line of military families and continued in this tradition as they fought for
freedom in America. The 54-page Military Journal of George
Ewing contains glimpses of the Battles of Germantown and Brandywine as well as
the difficult winter spent at Valley Forge.

Many Ewing men were contemporaries and friends of Calhoun,
Clay, and Webster. Perhaps the most well-known of this line is the Hon. Thomas
Ewing of Lancaster, Ohio, who became a U.S. Senator and sat on the cabinet of four U.S.
Presidents. The Thomas Ewing family adopted the famous William T. Sherman after the
death of his father and raised William as their own. He later married Thomas'
daughter, Ellen, and became their son-in-law.

You can read about their interesting and challenging lives
by selecting the buttons to the left or clicking on the links below where you will also
find birth and death dates and names of wives. From top to bottom, the men are
listed from the oldest generation first.